This chapter is told from Robin and Kori's points of view. :)

I do not own the Teen Titans. If I did, Red X would not have been in the lineup of villains. And neither would Bob and The Source. I was crying as the screen went through all those villains...and seeing all the Titans and their allies on computer screens...-shudders- that was kinda scary. Anyone wanna talk about the last episode? My screen name's SiriusBlaak. IM me:)

For those of you who didn't notice, I changed the rating from K+ to T. That's because a few future chapters will involve, umm, high school dance material? Well, let's just leave it at the fact that I go into some detail about what happens at the dance. (It's nothing sick) And I also have a, um, evil father character coming up. Four guesses which Titan has that father...

Robin was greeted by an excess of giggling as he entered his last class of the day: English. A girl with short blonde hair, whose name was Kat, was the one doing the giggling as she sat in her seat in the front of the class.

Robin took his seat, which was right behind hers. He dropped his red backpack onto the floor and took out his vocabulary homework, laying it in the center of his desk. He was in the process of getting a pencil out of his backpack when he heard someone say his name.

"Yeah?" he straightened, up, looking around for the person who had said his name. To his great surprise, and delight, it was Kori. She had taken her seat, which was next to his, and had turned in her chair so she could face him.

"Are you going to homecoming?" she asked. Robin felt himself blush.

"I'm not really sure," Robin said nervously. Then, deciding to go out on a limb, he added, "I want to ask someone, but I think they're already going with someone."

"Same here!" Kori said, smiling as always. Robin started at this answer. So Kori was not already going with someone! He could still ask her, but if he was not the person who she wanted to go with (Robin mentally sighed at the thought that that person could be him), then she would say no.

Robin had just decided to ask her, but his thoughts were interrupted by someone else saying his name.

Robin smiled politely to Kori before turning to face the front of the room, to see Kat sitting backwards so she could talk to him.

"Do you have a date to homecoming?" she asked, twirling a lock of her blonde hair in her left hand.

"No, but –" Robin began.

"Will you go with me?" Kat asked before he could finish.

Now Robin was really in a pickle. He had just seconds ago been trying to figure out the best way to ask Kori to go to homecoming with him, and now he was the one who had to decide on the answer!

If he turned Kat down, he still would have a chance with Kori, but he would end up staying home the night of the dance if Kori was going to ask someone else. If he said yes to Kat, he would not go with Kori, but he would at least be able to see her at the dance.

He looked Kat straight in her blue eyes, and said, as if he was reciting a boring speech,

"Yes, Kat, I will go to homecoming dance with you." (A/N: Yes I know I'm evil. If you think that's bad, you should see what I did in another story of mine…)

Kat let out a squeal of delight, then flung her arms around Robin and squeezed his neck. He felt like he was losing not only his ability to breathe, but the circulation in his entire head area.

"Can't breathe," Robin said in a hoarse voice. Kat hastily released him.

"Sorry," her voice was rather high-pitched. "And call me Kitten."

"Okay, Kitten," Robin said.

SWITCH TO KORI'S POV!!!!

"Hey, Robin!" Robin smiled politely to Kori before turning to face Kitten.

'No! Don't talk to her! Talk to me!' Kori found herself thinking frantically. She thought wildly, racking her brain for anything that she could do the get Robin to stop talking to Kitten.

"Do you have a date to homecoming?" Kitten asked Robin, twirling her hair in a most annoying way. Kori begged Robin to lie and say yes.

"No, but –"

'Dang!' The word exploded in Kori's mind.

"Will you go with me?" Kitten asked before Robin could finish his sentence.

Kori abandoned all thoughts of breaking up their conversation. It was too late. Kitten had asked.

'Please let the late bell ring so class will start,' Kori pleaded with the bell system. 'Ring, bell. RING!'

"Yes, Kat, I will go to homecoming dance with you."

Kori heard the words as if she were in a nightmare. They seemed to echo inside her head, ringing out so loudly that her head started to throb. She barely heard Kitten's scream of triumph, or Robin's strangled plea.

The words stopped echoing around her head, and she heard the late bell ring, fifteen seconds too late for her taste.

BACK TO ROBIN!!!

As the late bell rang, Robin sank back in his chair. Kitten turned around, not before flashing him a smile. Robin could not help but wish that he had plucked up his courage a few seconds before and asked Kori.

Sure, Kitten was nice, smart, and pretty, but she just was not Kori. Kitten's smiles did not make him feel weak in the knees. He did not get flustered every time Kitten looked at him. He did not get that strange feeling of happiness when he saw Kitten. It was Kori who caused him to feel that way.

He chanced a glance at her, and saw her staring determinately forward, her large green eyes fixed on the chalkboard. She seemed to feel Robin's gaze fixed on her, for she turned her head to face him.

"I hope you and Kitten have a nice time at the dance, Robin," she said flatly before turning back to the chalkboard.

Robin was puzzled. No, he was bewildered. Why was Kori so unhappy with him all of a sudden? Had she not been finished talking to him when he had turned to face Kitten? Was she mad at him for talking to Kitten? Was she mad at him for saying yes?

Robin felt as if someone had just kicked him in the stomach. Kori was not the type to get upset over little things like this. As he watched his teacher write on the chalkboard, he found himself concluding the only possible solution to this problem.

The only reason Kori would be that upset with him was if she had been about to ask him to the dance, and he had said yes to someone else.

'I'm the person she wanted to ask,' Robin thought as he pulled his notebook and a pencil out of his backpack. 'It's the only thing that would make her upset like that. I had a chance with Kori, and I ruined it.'